The Cecil Whig., 1887-07-16

whistled. Julia lost her hat at the very
Good heavens" shrieked Julia-you
could hear nothing less than \ scream
there comes aunt after u.s.
glanced back and my heart froze
within me. Not fifty yards behind us
came Mrs. Jupp, riding her toboggan in
the fashion and with all the abandon of
school boy, her curls flying wildly in
the wind, her highly magnified eyes glar-
ing at us over the curve of the toboggan,
like the exaggerated orbs of some uu-
known monster. Her bonnet was still
attached to her head by one string and
danced behind her in the air like a Chi
ncse kite.
1t seems that her eagle glances fell on
us just as we started; and realizing the
whole thing at once, what does that wo
man do but knock down-yes, actually
knock down with an umbrella-the
blonde young man, seize his Loboggan
and hurl herself after us before any one
could stop her. Mrs. smith, ones tainted
dead away, and almost came down the
slide on her own account, but WAS caught
by the unfortunate young man just as
she was disappearing over the edge.
''She is not steering at all, - screamed
TO Julia. who would have been crying if
she had breath to spare.
''She will upset to dead certainty"
remarked.
And truly the old woman's toboggan
was wobbling from side to side, in what
an expert would have known was dan
gerous way. Suddenly l heard a wild
shrek, even above the roar of the wind,
and glancing back saw confused mass
of drapery about twenty feet up in the
air, apparently still rising, and closely
followed by the toboggan. | assumed at
once that the entire outfit belonged to
Mrs. Jupp and my heart grew light
again.
We reached the bottom safely and
abandoning the toboggan to its fate |
helped Julia into the sleigh, which was
was waiting for us, sprang in myself, and
away we went at a speed most surely for
hidden by law. "Oh, GEORGE said Julia,
who was frightened now and clung to me
in charming manner, suppose aunt is
killed? Aud I am sure she is. Did you
see how high she went? | must 90 back
again-indeed | must
"Nonsense, dearest; You couldn't kill
Mrs. Jupp if you tried. She has probably
stolen sleigh and is aftor US by this
time"
''Oh, driver, called Julia, bracing up
at once, cant we go faster? We seem
almost to crawl along And yet," she
said tearfully, Il am sure she is hurt;
she-she-' and Julia began to cry in
earnest. But when we arrived at
friends house, where everything was
ready, Julia stopped crying and began to
blush very much, indeed, and kept on
blushing until she was made Mrs. Edger-
ton, when she said, in quiet matter-of-
fact way:
Now, George, you must go and see
aunt at once"
And SO, leaving my wife in good hands,
| went up to the Jupp mansion and rang
the bell with much inward fear and quak-
ing. John, the footman, came to The door
grlnning and l trying not to grin also,
asked if could see his mistress. No,
Mrs. Jupp had Come home upside
down." John said, and was in bed with
three doctors attending her. She was
in no wise injured, but insisted that she
had swallowed her front teeth, as these
useful articles we're missing when she
picked herself up and took an inventory
of her belongings. The doctors all agreed
that she was mistaken-as IN fact her
teeth was found in the snow some days
afterwar d-but she called them a pack
of fools and always insisted that they
went down her throat. My wife and |,
after much effort, opened negotiations
with the old lady which resulted in
sort Of armed neutrality being proclaim
ed; but we never dare to say ''toboggan"
to her and the sight of a uniform or any
thing pertaining to the sport has the
same effect on her that a red flag has on
bull and at such times she is not safe,
but considering everything we get on
with her very well.